Monday, November 3, 1862
The men of the Thirteenth settle in at Camp Casey, receiving new tents. The expectation is to spend the winter here. Nearly a hundred men are reporting sick daily. The regiment receives meager rations of salt pork, salt beef, bread, and the less-frequent potatoes or rice. The men of the Thirteenth are eager for news from home, and crowd the Chaplain's tent whenever mail arrives in camp.1
References:
1S. Millett Thompson, Thirteenth Regiment of New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865 : A Diary Covering Three Years and a Day (Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1888), 21.
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